Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-15
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

Free trade is the esprit de corps of this country. Since the 1960s, we have fundamentally changed an insular approach to an external approach by joining the European Union and embracing the Single Market. Why? Because we sell 90% of everything we make in this country, be it services or merchandise. We sell and export to create wealth and jobs in this country.
Deputy Boyd Barrett's diatribe and his reading of the riot act to me is anti-enterprises, anti-jobs and against the best interests of this country. Is the Deputy for free trade or not? Will he answer that question when he gives his supplementary response?

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Sitting date: 2022-11-15